[en] Chow Mein
With the beginning of the recipes in the blog, I published mexican food and showed how to make tacos. Now it’s time to make some chinese food, in this opportunity: Chow Mein.
Chow Mein means, literally, fried noodles in chinese.
Ingredients to make 4 portions:
- Oil.
- Garlic: 2 cloves.
- Chicken: 1 breast. (It could be optional for vegetarians, or more, for carnivors. Also could be other meat.)
- Carrots: 1 big, or 2 smalls.
- Red Pepper: 1.
- Onions: 2.
- Leek: 1 big or 2.
- Pumpkin: 1 piece, in proportion wih the other vegetables.
- Soy sprouts: 1 handful.
- Soy sauce.
- Noodles: 1/2 kg.
The vegetables and amounts are only ideas, I didn’t get soy sprouts, for example, and the pumpkin ended up in the recipe by chance. Depends of each one’s taste, you can add more of the vegetables you like, and less of that you don’t.
First we should put the noodles to boil, they don’t require too much work, and we’ll need them cooked at the end.
While the noodles boil, let’s start the hard work: Cut ALL the vegetables!
The secret is to cut everything in fine strips, vegetables and meat, specialy the carrot, or else it will take too long to cook. You can cut it in cubes o pyramids, but it looks better and is easier to eat with chinese sticks if it’s in strips.
Besides the vegetables, it’s time to chop the garlic.
With everything ready, let’s start cooking.
Put some oil in a wok, and start cooking the onions for a while. Then add the garlic and the chicken. Moving continuosly with a wood spoon. Until the chicken is sealed.
Once the chicken is white from the outside, let’s add the rest of the vegetables. The order is important, we don’t want raw vegetables or overcooked. First the carrots and the pumpkin. After the carrots soften, the pepper. And for last, the leek.
Once everything is cooked, we add salt, peppermint, and a lot of soy sauce.
In the same wok, to finish, we add the noodles already cooked, to mix them with the vegetables and the soy sauce. And we serve it right away.
